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a quick 'don't do it again' would have enabled the kid to take the exam and marked his card.
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With all due respect he was offered a solution which he turned down.In his shoes(sorry)I would have taken the choice offered and sat the exam in the borrowed shoes. |
With all due respect as I've already said, IMO the solution offered was not a sensible one.
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Seems to me, that the ,the,the idiot has his priorities all skewed
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It seems to me that the teacher is the one with the skewed priorities.
Which is more important? The child wearing the right shoes or the child missing the exam?
As to the rest of what you said, that is pure speculation as far as I can see and isn't worth addressing.
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but when you get "psycologists" from Grahams post fawning over the poor little children.
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When, of course, we all know that the correct adage is "spare the rod and spoil the child"...
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These kids have to be taught responsibility, thery have to know what is acceptable and what isn't, they have to know that their actions will have an effect on their futures and we should stop making excuses for them.
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Nobody is saying they shouldn't, however you don't teach children to behave in mature and responsible ways by acting like a kid yourself.
I once came up with a new definition of "cheeky":
"Cheeky is when a child is behaving like an adult whilst an adult is behaving like a child"!
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And if it is deemed acceptable, surely that would lead to disobedience, lawlessness and eventually anarchy?
Have you been reading the Daily Mail?? This is the sort of remark that they tend to come out with.
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The ensuing chain reaction is depressingly predictable: school failure, dropping out, arrest and incarceration
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It's not just the Daily Mail readers that can jump to conclusions eh Graham?
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I'm not sure what your point is here. On the one hand we have the "Daily Mail" speculation that (paraphrased) "if we let the little buggers have an inch they'll take a mile and society will fall down around our ears" (something which doesn't actually seem to have happened) wheras on the other we have the evidence of children, especially those from minorities, being excluded from schools and, having nothing better to do/ no better guidance and ending up becoming criminals.
Perhaps you just jumped to a conclusion there?
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As for the world going 'Daily Mail' on us ... don't forget that the Mail is the country's best selling mid-market paper because it's the one that best reflects the attitudes and opinions of the middle classes. I think the Mail's editorial line reflects the country's attitudes more than it sets them.
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And the Sun is the country's best selling newspaper. Why? Because it panders to the lowest common denominator, just like the Mail does to the "middle classes".